Re: Can't find hard disk on ibook G4 when use Yaboot as a Temporary Bootloader

[Klarke Lee <klarke@gmail.com>]

Dear Philips:

Thanks for your answers.

And finally, I managed to install the debain onto my ibook G4.
It's caused by the ATA-100 hd which can't be detect by yaboot-1.3.6
and the linux.bin contained in the debian-woody-rc2 CD's

My reference:
http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~schmidtm/apple/powerbook.en.php
http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto-2.html

I think these two are useful to anybody who want to install debian-woody newly.

A lot of thanks to Ethan Benson's for his boot-new-powermac-xfs.iso

best regards,
klarke



On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:19:36 +0100 (MET), Philipp Suter
<philipp.suter@gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I am not very much sure, but probably you should
> 
> 1. create a bootstrap-partition with mac-fdisk
> 2. install debian on a linux-filesystem-formated partition (not hfs+) but I
> use gentoo (www.gentoo.org), could be working for debian..
> 3. read the parts of the gentoo-documentation (or a similar explanation for
> debian), which explain how to partition and format your disk correctly.
> 
> cheers
> ph
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > Hi, everybody,
> >
> > I want to install debian on my ibook G4.
> > (Hardware: ibook G4, 512M DDR-RAM, 30G Fujitsu-MHT2030AT,
> >                 CD:@f2000000, ATA-3
> >                 HD:@f4000000, ATA-6)
> >
> > So, I followed en Français's popular instruction -- "Installing Debian
> > 3.0 onto an Apple iBook", I chosed Debain + MacOsX solution.
> > yaboot from:
> >
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/new-powermac/(version:
> > 1.3.6 seems old)
> > yaboot.conf:
> > image=/linux.bin
> >       label=install
> >       initrd=/root.bin
> >       initrd-size=8192
> >       append="disksize=2.88"
> >
> > image=/linux.bin
> >       label=install-safe
> >       initrd=/root.bin
> >       initrd-size=8192
> >       append="disksize=2.88 video=ofonly"
> >
> > put them(linux.bin, boot, yaboot.conf, root.bin) on the HD's first
> > partition(named debian).
> > (My HD's partition table under MacOsX:
> >     /dev/disk0s3:  /volume/debian      "MacOS Extended" (HFS+)
> >     /dev/disk0s5:  /                           "MacOS Extended" (HFS+)  )
> >
> > enter Openfirmware
> > o> boot hd:3,yaboot
> >
> > got the warning message: first boot partition is: "Apple_HFS"
> >                                        should be: "Apple_Bootstrap"
> >
> > then got the boot prompt:
> >
> > boot:>
> >
> > whatever I chose "install" or "install-safe"
> >
> > Yaboot could boot my ibook without load hard disk.
> > instead, the system recognise the CD-ROM as /dev/hda
> >
> > Could anybody help me?
> > Sincerely thanks to you all.
> >
> > BTW: I have try CD:"debian-30r2-powerpc-binary-1"
> > o>boot cd:,\install\powermac\yaboot
> > boot:>install24-safe
> > also can boot system. but got the same problem(Can't find hard disk).
> >
> > with my best regards,
> > klarke
> > 
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